The sun was shining for the Treasure Island Music Festival as 10,000 people gathered together to watch over a dozen artists perform such as The Raconteurs, Goldfrapp, CSS, Hot Chip, TV on the Radio, Vampire Weekend, and many more.
This festival was very green friendly displaying an awareness of helping the environment by providing compost and recycling trash bins throughout the festival, using solar panels to power the “Tunnel Stage,” offering a recycling store to accept used bottle, cans, plastic cups, and old cell phones in exchange for different prizes such as Vitamin Water, Vitamin Energy, and Smart Water, and free upcoming Bay Area Concerts and more! I asked, local San Francisco turnablist, DJ Mike Relm, “What do you do in your our day to day life to help the environment?”
“Walk! – quite a bit…Instead of using a car.” DJ Mike Relm explained that he since he lives in the city of San Francisco, he walks everywhere, whether is be from his local coffee shop or to a restaurant. DJ Mike Relm spun on the solar power Tunnel Stage on Saturday mixing and matching a vast array of songs such as Rage Against the Machine to The Charlie Brown theme song with a heavy bassline in the background to danceable hip-hop beats. Clearly, a solid and experienced DJ who toured with the Blue Man Group and performed at the 2007 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and Bonnaroo, proved to be a very fun-loving and comedic DJ. The hip-hip group, Aesop Rock, is another artist that supports the environment.
“I don’t own a car, and I recycle,” says Rob Sonic of Aesop Rock. “I recycle, I turn off the water when I am not using it, and I pet kittens,” says Wiz of Aesop Rock.
“We use Bio Diesel for our tour bus,” says James Lynch, the manager of Aesop Rock.
Aesop Rock is currently living in San Francisco, but originally from Long Island, and they performed on the main stage on Saturday.
The festival aimed to reduce CO2 emissions by providing Biodiesel generated buses for concert goer’s to meet at AT&T Park and to be delivered to Treasure Island. These buses reduced emissions hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide through a B20 fuel, which is a mix of 20% biodiesel, and 80% diesel. It proved to be a music festival that was more then just about music.
For more information please visit:
http://www.treasureislandfestival.com/greening.php
DJ Mike Relm
Aesop Rock
